
A Posit podcast for data science junkies, anomaly hunters, and those who play outside the confidence interval. Hosted by Michael Chow, with co-hosts Wes McKinney & Hadley Wickham.
| Publishes | Twice monthly | Episodes | 29 | Founded | a year ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Category | Technology | |||

Ruth Milligan has coached hundreds of conference speakers, curates TEDx Columbus, and wrote The Motivated Speaker. She's here to tell you that speaking is habitual, not natural. Michael, Wes, and Hadley get a live fifteen-second filler word hack, an ... more
Trevor Manz went from measuring plant apertures by hand in a wet lab to building the notebook that lets coding agents take the wheel. The creator of anywidget and founding engineer at marimo (marimo.io/pair) popped into The Test Set to spill on react... more
Leilani Battle studies how software shapes what we see and believe. The University of Washington professor and co-director of the UW Interactive Data Lab talks with Michael, Hadley, and Wes about an experiment that manipulated people using nothing bu... more
Joe Cheng is the CTO of Posit and the creator of Shiny. He joins Michael and Hadley to talk about why he almost walked away from AI work entirely over ethics concerns and what it takes to lead a team that didn't necessarily choose you. Plus, why sayi... more
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Across episodes, the show centers on data tooling, open-source ecosystems, and the practical realities of building data products in modern organizations. Conversations often explore how notebooks, AI assistants, and governance-friendly workflows reshape collaboration between data teams and non-technical stakeholders, with deep dives into visualization tooling, analytics engineering, SQL-centric tooling, and the evolving roles of data leaders. Notable throughlines include the tension between rapid AI-enabled experimentation and rigorous data quality, the role of community and open source in shaping tooling, and real-world case studies—from enterprise dashboards to Python and notebook ecosystems—demonstrating how data culture is evolving in l... more
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